Shy Girls Can't Date Bullies

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's a ten but he scares the crap out of me.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beau Stevenson was my best friend. But things changed after my mom died his family moved and he became Ashworth Academy's most feared bully.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We haven't spoken in four years. Now he's the guy everyone runs from and I'm the girl who stays invisible.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After another suspension the vice principal forces him onto my dance committee. My carefully ordered world crashes into his chaos. Every meeting is torturous as classmates flinch in his presence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When my rival steals my ideas and humiliates me in front of everyone Beau steps in. I should hate what he's become. Instead every time he defends me I see flashes of the boy I used to know.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I thought he'd forgotten I existed but he's been watching over me all along.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My overprotective dad would lose his mind if he knew I was falling for the bad boy. But when Beau looks at me with those piercing blue eyes I remember what it felt like to be brave.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now risking my reputation I want my best friend back. I just hope he doesn't break my heart.</span></p><p></p><p>***</p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For readers who enjoy morally grey men this Christmas romance delivers stolen moments and secret touches that'll make your heart race plus a hero who'll ruin you for all possessive book boyfriends.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This swoon-worthy young adult romance balances raw emotions with high stakes tension as former best friends have a second chance at love while healing from past trauma.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Expect secret kisses under mistletoe shopping trip with reformed bad boy cozy hot chocolate moments passionate encounters while decorating for Christmas plus love conquering fear and family expectations.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Happily Ever After Guaranteed.</em></strong></p><p></p>